Congrats to our Pushcart Prize Nominees

Every year for the last 40 years, Pushcart Press has administered the Pushcart Prize, a literary honor that celebrates the best writing advanced by small-sized presses. Nominations may only be presented, on paper, by the publishers themselves — authors or readers cannot submit — and each publisher is capped at six total nominations.

Caffeinated Press is proud to nominate six outstanding pieces for this high literary accolade:

The Watcher on the Island by Melanie Meyer, published in the Brewed Awakenings anthology [short story]

Each of these authors has crafted a work that moves us — either through its clean storytelling, or its crisp imagery, or its heartfelt message.

Much worthy literature, written and shared in regional communities, deserves to be celebrated. We are therefore honored to nominate these six pieces, and we wish these authors the best as the Pushcart Prize editors conduct their reviews. We only regret that we were capped at just six, because very many authors who’ve shared their work with us over the last year ought to be praised from the mountaintops.